Alamo, Nevada
The Black Mailbox
Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.
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Alamo, Nevada
Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.
Nye County, Nevada
A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.
Nye County, Nevada
The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Beatty, Nevada
Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.
Inyo County, California
The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."
Lone Pine, California
The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.
Flagstaff, Arizona
Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Rimrock, Arizona
The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.
Yavapai County, Arizona
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
Oracle, Arizona
A reproduction of earth's many biomes.
Tucson, Arizona
The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.
Sells, Arizona
The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.
Green Valley, Arizona
America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.
Benson, Arizona
Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.
Tombstone, Arizona
A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Magdalena, New Mexico
Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.